Garment-supporter.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

G. H. PBRRINE. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1906.

Application filed September 29, 1905. Serial No. 280,635.

To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. PERRINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.-

This invention relates to improvements in garment su porters and is of that class known as oop-and-button supporters.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efiicient device, especially adapted for use on suspenders or shoulderstraps, such as used on overalls, and is constructed of wire bent to form a rigid loop in which the button-shank rests, and having its ends bent down and formed into a yielding contracted neck above the button-shank, which prevents the accidental disengagement of the button and loop.

The invention consists of the new and novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully set forth in the following specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the button in position in the loop. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the supporter, showingin dotted lines the extended position of the ends. Fig. 3 is an edge view of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detailed view of one of the ends, showing the elongated eye at the extremity thereof. Fig. 5 is a modification in which the yielding neck is formed by one end only.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which similar numerals of reference desi nate like parts, 1 designates an eye to whic the suspended or shoulder-strap 2 is secured. The loop 3 is formed of wire bent over the lower bar of the eye 1 and is provided with a contracted lower end in which the shank of the button 4 rests. The ends of the wire of which the loop 3 is formed are bent down and converge to form a contracted yielding neck 5, then diverge and project over the opposite sides of the loop 3 and have their extremities bent back to form the elongated eyes 6, which permit of the expansion of the neck 5 as the shank of the button passes through it. The elongated eyes 6 permit the extremities to yield upwardly and outwardly as the button shank passes through the neck 5 and limits the outward movement of the said extremities, whereby the latter will be prevented from being bent out of shape should they be accidentally caught in any part of the garment.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a modification in which the contracted neck 7 is formed by one end of the wire, the other end being bent around the eye 1. In connecting the parts the loop 3 is placed over the button 4 and drawn up until the shank of the button passes throu h the contracted neck 5 or 7 and rests in the lower end of the loop 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A garment-supporter comprising a sinle piece of wire bent to form an eye, and a Ioop of wire below said eye, and having its ends bent back upon the loop and converging to form a neck and its extremities extending over and bent around the opposite sides of the said loop forming elongated eyes above the lower end of the loop, whereby the said extremities will be permitted to move upwardly and outwardly a limited distance.

2. A garment-supporter comprising a single piece of wire bent to form a loop and having the ends bent back upon the loop and converging to form a neck above the lower end of the loop and its extremities extending over the opposite sides of the loop and then bent back to form an elongated eye at each extremity above the lower end of the loop, said elongated eyes permitting the extremities to yield upwardly and outwardly.

3. Agarment-supporter comprisin an eye, and a single piece of wire bent over the lower bar of the eye and forming a loop below the eye and the extremities of the Wire bent down and converging to form a contracted yielding neck and then bent outwardly and having the extremities formed into elongated eyes surrounding the opposite sides of the loop above the lower end of the latter, said eyes permitting the extremities to yield upwardly and outwardly.

4. A garment-supporter comprising a single piece of wire bent to form an eye, and a loop of wire below said eye and a yielding end thereof and permits the yielding neck to i Witnesses:

neck above the lower end of the said loop the In testimony whereof I have signed my part forming the yielding neck being formed name to this specification in the presence of with an elongated eye at its end which takes two subscribing witnesses.

around the side of the loop above the lower GEORGE H. PERRINE.

move upwardly and outwardly a limited dis- CHAs. V. FIEDLER, tance.

CHARLES F DIEHLMANN 

